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<p n="2922"> <note type="authorial" place="margin"> City and Liberty<lb></lb>
of <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2410">Westminster</rs>
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<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2411">County of<lb></lb>
Middlesex</rs>
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}<lb></lb>
to wit.</note>
<lb></lb>
An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the<lb></lb>
King, at the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2412">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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<lb></lb>
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2413">Westminster</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
in the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2414">County of Middlesex</rs>
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, the <rs type="date" id="WACWIC65212_date542">Fifteenth day of Decembe</rs>
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r in the Thirteenth Year<lb></lb>
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,<lb></lb>
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, before <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-1">Thomas Prickard</rs>
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, Gentleman,<lb></lb>
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of <lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-36">Martin Cascater</rs>
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then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-2">Thomas<lb></lb>
Cranage</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-3">Thomas Abbott</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-4">Josiah Day</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-5">Evan Tucker</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-6">John Murless</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-7">Alexander<lb></lb>
Dudgeon</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-8">Jenkin Morris</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-9">William Johnson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-10">Charles Healy</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-11">John Wright</rs>
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,<lb></lb>
<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-12">Samuel Middleton</rs>
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<rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-13">John Gossart</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-14">John Bruce</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-15">James Watson</rs>
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, <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-16">Samuel<lb></lb>
Wigg</rs>
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and <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-17">John Steers</rs>
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good and lawful Men of the said Liberty, duly<lb></lb>
chosen, who being then and there duly sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the<lb></lb>
King, when, how, and by what Means the said Martin Cascater came to<lb></lb>
h is Death, do upon their Oath say That the said Martin Cascater on the Thirteenth<lb></lb>
day of December in the Year aforesaid, in the Evening, being<lb></lb>
walking upon and over certain Boats and Barges Floating<lb></lb>
in and upon the <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2415">River Thames</rs>
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, that is to say, at <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2416">Hungerford<lb></lb>
Stairs</rs>
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in the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2417">Parish of St. Martin in the Fields</rs>
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within the<lb></lb>
Liberty and County aforesaid, It so happened that the said<lb></lb>
Martin Cascater then and there Accidentally Casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune fell into the said <rs type="placeName" id="WACWIC65212_geo2418">River Thames</rs>
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, and in the Water,<lb></lb>
and Mud or Slime in the said River, was then and there<lb></lb>
Suffocated and Drowned, of which said Suffocation and Drowning<lb></lb>
he the said Martin Cascater then and there died. And so the Jurors<lb></lb>
aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say, that the said Martin Cascater<lb></lb>
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid Accidentally Casually and by<lb></lb>
Misfortune came to his death, and not otherwise. In Witness whereof as<lb></lb>
well the said Coroner, as the said <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2922-18">Thomas Cranage</rs>
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Foreman of the said<lb></lb>
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have<lb></lb>
to this Inquisition set their Hands and Seals, the Day Year and Place<lb></lb>
first above written</p>
<p n="2923"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2923-1">Tho. Prickard</rs>
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<rs type="occupation" id="WACWIC65212_occ775">Coroner</rs>
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.</p>
<p n="2924"> <rs type="persName" id="WACWIC65212_n2924-56">Thos. Cranage</rs>
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Foreman</p>
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